Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Lodging Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Lodging
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Lodging "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Lodging
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Lodging The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Lodging
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Lodging Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Lodging
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Lodging Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Lodging
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Lodging Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Lodging
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Lodging Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Lodging
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Lodging "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Lodging
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Lodging If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Lodging
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Lodging Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Lodging
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Lodging Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Lodging
